Improvement in hammers



/ wat Inventur.-

Witness-es. 4

iinitlell 51am JOHN P. RADLEY, or

ALBANY, NRW `roRR.

Letters Patent .N 99,705, (lated Feb'mcary 8, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN HAMMERS.

The Schedule'reerred tq in these Letters Patentand making part of the same To all whom it mayI concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN l?. RADLEY, of Albany, in the county of Albany, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hammers, Screw-Drivers, R-eamer, and Wrench; and the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being -had to the accompanying drawings, making :i part of this specification, in Which Figure 1 represents a complete side view of my improved hamrner, showing 'the socket, nut-wrench, eye for1 bending wire, Ste., countersink, and screw-driver, in one piece; also, the strengthening-bolt, for securing the hammer to the handle, in dotted lines.

Figure 2 shows an edge view of the socket, the reamer, and screw-driver, on a broken-oli' section of Vthe halnmer handle.

Figure 3 is an edge sectional view of the same.

'Ihe object of my invention is 'to provide in the most compact manner in one tool, the usually neces- `Vsary tools or implements required in putting up and hinging doors, with the trimmings, and for various other purposes,

My invention consists in putting on tothe end of a hammer-handle a solid metal socket, which is provided with two recesses of dierent sizes, for nutwrenches; a largeand a small hole tl1rough,for bending wire, and other purposes; a bevelled conntersink,

for fitting screw-heads to buts and othcrhinges, locks,V

and variousmetal plates; and an .ecient screw-driver.

To enable others to make and use my invention, I will describe it more fully, referring to the drawings, and the'Y letters marked thereon. f

I use a nail or other hammer or hatchet constructed in the ordinary manner. On the end of the handle A, I iit a socket fernle, B, of suicient length to allow of the recesses or nutwrenches b b on both sides, which may be of different sizes and form, to tit variously-shaped nuts.

Between the wrenches b b is an opening or hole, a, through, to admit the screw-end of a bolt, and also another small hole, c, through the blade D, for bending wires or other purposes.

The blade D may extend beyond the wrenches b b a sutiicient distance to form` au efficient screw-driver at the point d, the blade also being wide enough to admit of the edges e e being bevelled oli` in such a manner as to make a tapering remuer, or a countersink, for tittingscrew-heads to the huts, hinges, locks, and plates, for various uses and purposes.

The hammer or hatchet-head being formed with an eye, and put on the handle in the usual manner, I

bore into the handle, centrally, a hole of suii'cient depth, into which is fitted a steel bolt, E, the head being enlarged and tapeiing to form an efficient wedge to hold the hammer or hatchet ou to the handle A.

What I claim as 'my invention, is-

A hammer, the handle -of which is strengthened by means of the bolt E, and having at the other end of the handle a socket, B, which is provided with wrench, countersink, screw-driver, and perforations for bending wire and other purposes, as herein described.

JGHN P. RADLEY.

Witnesses:

J. B. W0oDRUF1`, JAMES STORY. 

